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JUST FU***** CHANGE BROWSER ALREADY! Why you have to be so stupid to use Chrome?
According to the people I know, "It's better" because they won the browser speed race without looking at anything else.
You should see people hanging onto windows instead of switching to any other OS...
You can still block ads while shoving your data up Google's ass, here is how.
Don't use Chrome
just install firefox ffs.
Just use Firefox. Its people's fault that it got so bad because you basically gave them a browser monopoly
Is this actually easier than installing librewolf?
Nope. It also sounds like it will repeatedly break after updates.
Using an adblocker on chrome is the funniest shit, that’s like using a condom to fuck a sheep.
Good job using a condom, but what the fuck are you doing fucking a sheep?
My first web browser was Mosaic version 1. I ran version 2 alpha for a bit.
Netscape started doing things better so I moved over to it.
Over the years I've bounced around from Netscape, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and a few others (the MS browsers never really swayed me). It seemed like every year I'd be moving to a new platform or version. I usually have 3-4 browsers installed on my computers at any given time.
Once Chrome blocked uOrigin I moved over to Firefox. Easy.
The point is, to get the best (and safest) browsing experience, you have to be flexible. If you just use the thing that "came with the computer" you're going to have a bad time. If Chrome wants to break your browsing experience, ditch it.
Get use firefox.less intrusive
For those that do need to use Chrome for whatever reason, don't bother with all this faff just use uBOL, it's just as good as uBO
uBlock Origin Lite seems to work fine for me.
As they note in the article, this is a temporary measure, I.E. guaranteed to break soon.
Start switching to Firefox now so you're done when they finally turn it of. Ignore any other Chromium based browsers, it's unlikely they have the manpower to extend MV2 beyond what Google supports with their LTS releases.
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Alternatively, you could use a browser instead of an advertisement delivery app.
you can enable ublock in chrome by downloading firefox from chrome, installing it, then installing ublock in firefox and finally removing chrome
Yeah all you have to do is circumvent the security settings in your browser and suppress warning messages to enable Manifest 2, all in 8 easy steps (written as if it's 6 steps to make it seem less onerous). For now. Until Google switches it off completely.
Or, drop Chrome and Chromium based browsers (such as Edge, Vivaldi, Brave etc) in one easy step. Install a privacy respecting Firefox based browser like Firefox itself or Librewolf.
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Just ditch chrome. Done.
I use Firefox when ads are overrunning my screen
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